A project to allow a GoPro camera to be controlled from a machine running Linux. This project was originally conceived as a way to control a GoPro camera from a Raspberry Pi for biodiversity monitoring, but is generally compatible with most Linux systems.

Arduino for Biologists A book that I am editing and writing part of Pelagic Publishing as part of their series Data in the Wild. The book is a how-to guide for creating open hardware tools for biological science. Using Arduino it is possible to create cheap, customisable and re-purposable tools to aid in laboratory and field science. Starting with the basics of electronics and the Arduino platform the book then describes a number of exemplar projects, from basic use of sensors to the design and deployment of sensor networks. It also describes how data from sensor networks can be integrated with the existing infrastructures of biodiversity informatics. There's a longer description here: Arduino for Biologists (I'm writing a book).

Proprietary data loggers can be expensive - for example a three channel data logging system is available from Alphatemp for £465.00. Such costs make large scale deployment of such systems unaffordable for all but well funded projects. This project aims to create an open source and open hardware data loggers making use of the widely avaialbale Arduino prototyping platform.

The first stage is building a number of acoustic data loggers capable of identifying the songs of Leptophyes punctatissima and recording the date and time the identification was made, along with associated environmental data such as temperature and humidity. These data will then be uploaded to a Scratchpad for curation, analysis and eventual publication.

The W. D. Lang geological maps of Lyme Regis were digitised, georeferenced and made available through the third party application Maprika, the video below explains some of what we were able to work out and share with the public by doing so.

The Biblio Autocomplete Drupal module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using previosuly entered values and/or third party services (currently two external plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).

This project makes use of the Arduino Library for Processing and requires the Arduino to be loaded with the Firmata > StandardFirmata sketch from the examples folder (in the Arduino IDE). The library allows you to easily access the analog input values from an Arduino running thr Firmata sketch.

The code required to grab the inputs from A0 and A1 and draw them is below.

eMonocot aims to create a global online resource for monocot plants. It will provide a focus for taxonomists working on monocots and will help people discover information about monocots by providing tools for identification, up-to-date checklists, descriptions and links to other resources.

eMonocot builds upon existing collaborations and projects within European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) such as Palmweb and Scratchpads, in addition to CATE (including CATE-Araceae) and GrassBase – The online world grass flora.

"Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy" (ViBRANT) is a European Union FP7 funded project running December 2010 to 2013 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. Our goal is to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web.

There are numerous sites that give wonderful amounts of genuine scientific knowledge about orthopteroid insects, but so far none dedicated to the lighter side. This site is dedicated to redressing that deficit.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) acts as adviser and arbiter for the zoological community by generating and disseminating information on the correct use of the scientific names of animals.

Building a databse of the Hymenoptera parasites and parasitoids of the stick insects and leaf insects. Will include a taxonomic and specimen databse of the chrysidid subfamilies Amiseginae and Loboscelidiinae and host-parasite or host-parasitoid information for all hymenoptera species attacking phasmids.